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ERCOT's interconnection process operates differently from the rest of the country. Under the connect-and-manage framework, each project is studied on its own merits under Planning Guide Section 5, rat …
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Data center energy campus projects are moving forward before load certainty, commercial terms, and interconnection outcomes are fully resolved. Developers and their partners are committing capital for …Chairperson
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Data centers are arriving on utility interconnection queues faster than the grid was designed to absorb them, and the default responses, behind-the-meter isolation or large inflexible load requests, a …
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NERC has raised specific concerns about the grid stability implications of large-scale inverter-based resources, and co-located data center BESS deployments are at the center of that conversation. As …
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AI data center load profiles, characterized by rapid, large-magnitude transients, create subsynchronous torsional interaction risks for nearby synchronous generators that conventional interconnection …
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Military installations operate under reliability requirements that most utilities and IPPs rarely face: uninterrupted power during grid outages, cyber events, and extreme weather, with no tolerance fo …
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Enhanced geothermal systems are moving from research programs to operating projects, and the timeline to commercial scale is compressing. This panel brings together subsurface technology developers, a …Speakers
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Interconnection queues, equipment constraints and transmission siting challenges are delaying the large-load connections that data centers and advanced manufacturing customers need on 12 to 24-month t …
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The rapid growth of on-site and behind-the-meter generation at data centers is introducing permitting and emissions compliance challenges that many developers and equipment providers have not had to n …
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As inverter-based resources displace synchronous generation, the inertia and reactive power that large rotating machines provided are declining faster than most grid operators planned for. Synchronous …
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Co-locating prime power generation at a data center campus, whether natural gas turbines, reciprocating engines, or combined-cycle systems, converts a facility that was previously a minor emissions so …
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Power generation and data center construction projects are increasingly competing for the same pool of electricians, pipefitters, welders, millwrights, and commissioning personnel, often in the same g …
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The electric sector is entering a new cyber-physical risk era. Generation, transmission, distribution, substations, distributed energy resources, data centers, private generation, vendors, cloud platf …
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Hyperscale data centers require five-nines reliability while facing interconnection queues that stretch years and permitting timelines that compress development windows. Renewable generation paired wi …Chairperson
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As hyperscalers and colocation developers move toward behind-the-meter and off-grid generation at gigawatt-scale campuses, the engineering requirements for onsite power plants have grown substantially …
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Hyperscale data center load is arriving on timelines that conventional interconnection and transmission development cannot match. The structural mismatch between when capacity is needed and when it ca …
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Load growth from data centers and AI infrastructure is compressing the timeline between resource planning decisions and the capacity the grid actually needs. For generation owner-operators managing ex …
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Combined heat and power has served industrial facilities, institutions and commercial customers for decades. Right now the market is shifting. Data center load growth, grid delivery delays, biogas man …
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On-site generation at data center campuses is growing faster than the decarbonization frameworks designed to govern it. Diesel backup conflicts with emissions targets. Natural gas prime power triggers …
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Gigawatt-scale AI campuses need more than electricity. They need transmission access, cooling water, fuel infrastructure, industrial permitting capacity and operational resilience, and they need all o …Chairperson
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As hyperscalers buy compute from neo-cloud and colocation providers rather than building their own facilities, the electricity behind that compute shifts from the buyer's Scope 2 into their Scope 3, a …
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Hyperscale data centers need power on 12 to 24-month timelines. Interconnection queues run five years or longer. Meanwhile, oil and gas producers across North America are managing stranded gas, flarin …
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The electrical power system is stressed by recent and expected load growth due to computational loads/inverter-based loads (IBL) (e.g., large data center growth) and electrification of transportation, …
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Data centers require 99.999% reliability, roughly five minutes of downtime per year. Achieving that with a fleet of reciprocating gensets means procuring more units than the load requires, and knowing …
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Data center power strategies do not develop in a vacuum. Utilities are being asked to serve extremely large loads on accelerated timelines while managing reserve margins, transmission constraints, int …
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Supercritical CO₂ power cycles have been in development for two decades. They are now approaching commercial deployment, and the applications relevant to the POWERGEN audience are specific: gas turbin …
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AI is driving the largest load growth the grid has seen in decades, and data centers are often cast as the problem. This panel argues that they can also be part of the solution. Panelists will discuss …
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AI data centers have more pressure on timelines than any industrial buildout in history. At the same time, gas turbine lead times are a half-decade long, new transmission seems untenable, and it is ha …Chairperson
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Interconnection queues in many regions now run five to eight years. Data center campuses are arriving in 50 to 300 MW blocks on 12 to 24 month timelines. The mismatch is a system planning problem that …
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America’s data center boom is running into a grid-sized problem
America’s data center boom is moving fast, but the infrastructure needed to power it isn’t always keeping pace. From transmission and fuel constraints to construction setbacks, major projects are finding that turning billions of dollars in investment into energized megawatts can take longer than planned.
October 05, 2026
